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V, 28.
much less for money's sake, nor on account of any insolent feeling, nor yet from any thought of hatred ; 2263
"" But because we venerate the great Rishi, we have come on this account. You, noble sirs ! know well our mind! Why should there be such sorrowful contention! 2264
"“You honour what we honour, both alike, then we are brothers as concerns religion. We both with equal heart revere the bequeathed spiritual relics of the lord. 2265
""To be miserly in (hoarding) wealth, this is an unreasonable fault; how much more to grudge religion, of which there is so little knowledge in the world! 2266
"" The exclusive and the selfishly-inclined, should practise laws of hospitality (civility)"; but if ye have not rules of honour? such as these, then shut your gates and guard yourselves.” 2267
This is the tenor of the words, be they good or bad, spoken by them. But now for myself and my own feelings, let me add these true and sincere words. 2268
· Let there be no contention either way; reason ought to minister for peace, the lord when dwelling in the world ever employed the force of patience. 2269
Not to obey his holy teaching, and yet to offer gifts to him, is contradiction. Men of the world
perhaps the singular implies that Drona used the words of the chief of the kings.
1 Should practise waiting for guest laws,' civil conduct. I have given here the sense of the passage.
· Kshatriya rules, rules or laws of chivalry.
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